Just to add to your list of whackos include in that the government beauracrats who have mostly been infected by the watermelon types plus their ability to create "standards" that are in fact laws that no elected representative ever voted on.
And then there are our spineless pols. The permit acceleration process only passed by _2_ lousy votes in the house. Gads.
I'll give the folks in Az. high marks for hanging in there. As a businessman looking for return I am sure I would have bailed out long ago; they're got the real stuff.
At one "required" meeting in Yuma, I learned that one of the government employees who was running the meeting had expressed the opinion that the earth would be better off without humans. She did not say this in the meeting, but had expressed it privately to a coworker.